Employee compensation averages $29.39 an hour - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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Of that, wages and salaries averaged $20.49, accountinh for 69.7 percent of costs. which averaged $8.90, accounted for the remaininb 30.3 percent of the cost for nonfarm, state and local governmenyt workers. The amount spent on costs for legally required includingSocial Security, Medicare, unemployment insuranc e and workers’ compensation, averaged $2.28 an Employer costs for life, health, and disability insurance benefits averaged $2.52, while paid leave benefitsw (vacations, holidays, sick leave and personal leave) average $2.08. Retirement and saving benefitsaveraged $1.31 per hour worked. Among the four regions, costs for health-insurance benefits ranged from $1.
71 an hour in the South to $2.29 in the Health-insurance costs were $2.13 in the Midwest and $2.05 in the